Light of Arad: The First to Walk - Chapter 134



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134

Jinseong carefully hid himself behind the rock.

The place that Jinsung has now reached after passing through it again is the past heaven, and more specifically, the western lawless zone. In other words, it was a time period when the cartel that was wiped out in the present heaven had only recently been organized here.

The user that Jinseong was chasing was a shadow dancer from the thief profession, and was presumed to be a ‘sub-character’ who quickly cleared the main scenario quest with nimble movements.

Jinseong had to smack his lips with a little regret as he slowly followed her.

‘If only I had been given the ability I asked for… … I wouldn’t have done this.’

Jinseong demanded, interrupting Nemer’s words.

His top priority is, of course, –

“Please allow me to immediately check for contamination. It would take too long and be inefficient to track down each ‘character adventurer’ or each candidate for the Forged Blade to identify the contamination. Please allow me to immediately identify it with Nemer’s power. If you can’t tell me in detail what the contamination is, at least let me identify whether or not there is contamination.”

A request to be granted the ability to see contamination at a glance.

Wasn’t this one of the most troublesome things Jinseong had to do in Plain: Arad?

There is no way to know which user’s main scenario quest or which part was corrupted.

This is a situation that can only be known by going back to Jinseong’s own memories and comparing and confirming them.

At least, Jinseong had noticed that the contaminated parts overlapped and existed within the ‘flow of time’ that matched his own level, but Jinseong wanted a more precise confirmation.

If Nemer grants this request by any chance, and if he can immediately confirm it with his new ability, his range of motion will be vastly expanded.

But it was impossible.

『It is impossible to give up on what is possible. Above all, it is impossible to straighten all the blades with a single pair of tongs.』

‘… … Well, that’s right. I tried it just in case, but if you think about it logically, it’s probably something to be expected.’

Pollution is caused by .

Grants the power to instantly detect such contamination within oneself?

If Nemer, who doesn’t even directly intervene, can do such a thing through Jinseong, it means that he will eventually become the same level as Jinseong himself.

If the difference compared to Nemer was that big… … .

‘Nemer would have stepped in and ended it from the beginning. He would have found them in an instant, torn them apart, and sealed them all over the world line.’

There is no way I could have stayed still until now. There is no way something like this could happen.

So that meant that it was impossible from the beginning.

“Then my account and-. Uh, so you’re letting me use what my character adventurers had?”

『But you have brought danger upon yourself. Your safety, which you have protected by minimizing dimensional cracks and distortions, can no longer be guaranteed.』

“……That’s right. There’s no way the Time Lords would stay still. Hmm, damn it, but Ah- no, once that happens, once that happens, hmm…….”

The second requirement is the linkage between Jinseong’s own account and Jinseong’s current physical body.

If this were possible, Jinseong would have been able to use all of his assets, which he had literally staked his life on, in the game Dungeon & Fighter, but the only answer he got back was that it was impossible.

If even these things were impossible, there was no need to make suggestions like asking for items, leveling up, or increasing skill points.

It was something that Jinseong could easily obtain with his own strength alone, so after organizing his thoughts, Jinseong took out two new things.

“Then first… please allow me to use the title and aura.”

Jinseong himself must achieve the impossible no matter what he does.

In particular, we need to ask Nemer to break through the parts that cannot be touched systematically.

What Jinseong, who bought and wore it, still had not acquired was a ‘title’ and an ‘aura.’

A title classified as an item equipment.

Titles, like those in other online games, can be earned by achieving certain goals.

It also indirectly shows what kind of personality a user has, and the basic idea is to give you a rough idea of ​​the user’s level just by having a difficult-to-obtain title.

But that’s not all.

‘I absolutely need the title and the aura. Not only for my life, but also for my safety-.’

There is an ability value increase granted for each title.

That is, it is not just for decoration purposes.

It’s the same with Aura.

Although it is classified as an avatar, it is not just about decorating the character’s surroundings with various sparkly special effects.

‘- [Adventurer Fame] Even for the sake of it. If you add up all the Adventurer Fame that increases from the final title and aura, you’ll be able to do future tasks more easily.’

In addition to the [Adventurer’s Fame] that increases with the title, aura, and ‘final level setting’, you can also achieve an effect of increasing abilities by up to 15% compared to when not wearing the corresponding part!

As a user of the game Dungeon & Fighter, it was an unspoken rule for users who enjoyed the end content to use the so-called ‘end-level settings’ for , , , .

‘Even more so when I’m not a character, but now… … .’

It meant that it was one of the absolutely necessary parts.

What really fired up Jinseong’s motivation was that from now on, that too was possible.

“It will come true.”

Nemer tried to disappear at that point.

So Jinseong had to hurriedly make another proposal.

“That, and! That’s not all, uh, there’s one more!”

“Excessive greed brings trouble. When you do what you want-.”

“That’s why I’m saying this! Hey, other character adventurers will be able to check my status! At that time, how should I put it, for gimmick purposes! At least you can make it so that it doesn’t look weird? I really need it to complete the .”

The last thing Jinseong wanted was a countermeasure against users like Sunsoo.

Jinseong himself has already seen it.

After checking the item information, even if Vivi modifies the equipment, the information itself remains the same. Even if the actual performance is overwhelmingly improved, the information on the item itself is clearly the same as Jinseong’s own memories.

But what if Vivi proceeds with the modification before verifying the information? What about the one that Jinseong himself is currently using?

Didn’t the changed actual performance have the effect of deleting the penalty that should have existed in the corresponding item information?

Not only in terms of purity, but also in a situation where we don’t know which users we will meet in the future and how we will meet them, this part will be a huge limitation.

Jinseong had to make this request to Nemer, if only to protect his own identity and avoid sanctions from the Time Lords.

『… … If you put your utmost effort into it, it will come true.』

And it produced results that impressed Nemer once again.

* * *

Ultimately, the practical benefits Jinseong gained from Nemer were twofold.

‘I have the right to use titles and auras, and my information is no longer exposed outside of the system. That’s good enough for now.’

Something that can never be done through Jinseong’s own efforts alone.

So to speak, this is something that is only possible through systematic intervention in the game Dungeon & Fighter.

It was as if he had broken through it with the power of Nemer.

‘Hehehe, Nemerga is secretly~ saying that. He has a weakness for giving in if you pretend to try. I should’ve bought a few more, but it’s too bad.’

Even if I wanted to ask for a few more things, it was impossible.

In addition to her will to minimize direct intervention, she couldn’t even maintain a long face-to-face meeting with Jinseong herself right away.

However, Jinseong did not feel only regret for her disappearing.

Because I was able to completely let go of one of the concerns I had been harboring along with my doubts.

‘A single pair of tongs cannot straighten all the blades… … Does this mean that corruption is occurring in quests that I have already completed, or in quests that are still too far in the future for me to reach, and that there is no one to straighten them?’

One of the things I was suspicious of when I noticed the phenomenon of once contaminated objects becoming contaminated again.

Nemer virtually confirmed it.

‘That is… … I don’t want you to worry about that-.’

So, for Jinseong, things became simpler and easier.

‘-It means that I only want to properly correct the pollution right in front of my eyes.’

That was the reason Jinseong could smile so refreshingly.

The pollution isn’t just happening on your own timeline, but it’s happening everywhere, so you have to deal with it anyway.

‘… … But if that happens – does that mean that some users will actually see Seria getting killed by Gulgwishi through their monitors? Then how should we deal with it?’

There were still some unresolved questions, but Jinseong didn’t think deeply about it.

Anyway, most of them are character adventurers, that is, users… … .

‘Neople must be having a hard time. Stay strong, all employees.’

Because it will be the job of others to fix buggy gameplay and improper progression of the main scenario.

From that perspective, Jinseong was able to recall points that he could focus on again.

It is of course important to correct user contamination.

Because Jinseong can do what he can, and through that, he can obtain various information that will be helpful to him as he lives in Plain: Arad.

But in the end, what really matters are the real adventurers.

‘This means that the contamination of users who have been possessed like Vivi, that is, candidates for true adventurers and candidates for the forged blade, is the most important.’

Even in the midst of all this, Jinseong did not look at the user in front of him lightly, but other thoughts were already dominating his mind.

It was a kind of mockery mixed with a sense of futile complaint.

“Ah, that guy… somehow… he keeps talking like he knows something, but he always tries to hide it. With that personality, there’s no way he’d keep his mouth shut, but he kept it hidden because it was such an important matter. He keeps it to himself, so it’s fatal.”

Why was the ahaeng different?

Even if Jinseong himself and Vivi could do things that were ‘out of the norm’, why was he able to do all the things that Jinseong himself had questioned?

Jinseong was able to roughly draw a picture.

‘The source of the Abyss… … If he had summoned Ah-hang, Ah-hang would probably be in a completely different situation than the restrictions I was under. The question about the Time Lords must have been the same, right?’

Perhaps the source of the Abyss was not told to Ah-hang?

It doesn’t matter what you do. You can do anything.

‘You didn’t believe me when I said I was a Time Lord, because I didn’t receive any penalties for doing whatever I wanted.’

The source of the Abyss.

One of the four transcendent beings whose real names have not yet been revealed.

The source and master of the energy called ‘Abyss’, which is used as energy in the Demon World.

‘The only thing that has been revealed is that he is trying to spread the Abyss to the Demon World to expand his influence… … Also, like Nemer, he is a transcendent being who seeks to obtain ‘dew’.’

From the perspective of a transcendent being who could only show limited movements, the source of the Abyss had to have a narrow range of movement compared to Nemer.

Compared to beings with the ability to transcend even world lines, the Abyss’s radius of action, which relies on ‘power’, is naturally narrow.

‘The problem is the reason for searching for dew. The setting that the transcendent beings are searching for dew is something that not only I but also all users know – but the only entity whose ‘reason’ has been clearly revealed is Nemer.’

The source of the Abyss also appears in the Legion Dungeon of the game Dungeon & Fighter.

Even though it is literally the source of the Abyss in a deteriorated state, it exerts power that is difficult for users to deal with, and even the great wizard Mayer, who appeared as an NPC, was astonished at the power of its main body.

A being who knows exactly his own strength and therefore cannot help but be full of pride.

Jinseong had to tilt his head as he recalled the nature of the source of the Abyss.

‘I had a feeling that he liked things like hierarchy based on power. Did he make a proposal that such a being could accept?’

So then, what is the relationship between the source of the Abyss and Wa?

Who approached first, and how did they find out?

Who is it, after all?

Jinseong bit his lower lip.

My first concern was that the situation might be more serious than expected.